Courier Services was agreeable, but the Institute was fighting him; their long-time policy of absolute pacifism was in direct conflict with any such demand.

Under further instructions from Verigin, as a sign of absolute pacifism,the Doukhobors of the three Governorates of Transcaucasia made the decision to destroy their weapons.

They were a predominantly peasant movement that set up hundreds of voluntary anarchist pacifist communes based on their interpretation of Christianity as requiring absolute pacifism and the rejection of all coercive authority.

Despite his involvement with the NCF - and later with the Peace Pledge Union - Russell never accepted absolute pacifism.

It was not easy to steer a course between absolute pacifism and revolutionary violence.

Or should they abandon all illusions in the capacity of military preparations to prevent, rather than precipitate, war and opt for a policy of peace at any price, of absolute pacifism?

It was not primarily from the left that the groundswell of absolute pacifism emerged in the later 1930s.

In other words, although there are varieties of pacifism, for example "just war" pacifism and "absolute" pacifism, a common feature of all of them is opposition to war.

During his period of tenure the magazine separated from the PPU as it had widened its focus into areas not directly related to absolute pacifism.

He was unshakable in his convictions, sticking to his absolute pacifism even during World War II when German planes were bombing the homes and work places of the people he was speaking to.